“They certainly need a manager and I have said to Norman I wouldn’t want you to let this drag on,” Adams told Radio Stoke.

“I don’t think it is fair on the supporters, I don’t think it is fair on the team and I don’t think it is fair on the two lads who are in charge at the moment. A decision needs to be made and that will ultimately be Norman’s, Colin Garlick’s and the chairman’s because it is their football club.

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“But they are only in situ looking after it for the supporters of the club and I would say to them think wisely about the choice they make, decide what type of manager you want.

“Do you want a coach-manager? Do you want a manager with another coach? I don’t really think that a lot of these chairmen really think about the type of manager that they want to employ at their football club.

Port Vale's joint caretaker manager Chris Morgan

“Do they want experience? There are plenty of experienced managers out there that would want the job but they are very much like me, they have been through the wringer I would imagine.

“Do they want another young manager? They have been down that route a couple of times now. Do they want a high profile young manager? I think that is another route that can be explored.

“But ultimately it is not my decision it is down to Norman and the rest of the decision makers at the football club.”

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Adams has ruled himself out of the manager’s job at Port Vale, saying he is happy running the football consultancy business he has built up over the last two years. But he could take an advisory role with the Valiants.

He said speculation linking him with the manager’s job is way off the mark: “If they are linking me with the manager’s job then they can forget it because I have ruled that out. Norman knows my feelings about that, it is not something that I am keen to do.

“If there was a period where the club was without a manager and they needed somebody to step into the breach for one or two games then I might have to look at that, but in the long term football management is now not for me. I am very happy to do other things.